Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni, Jr. (Nikki Giovanni) Quotes

Mistakes are a fact of life. It is the response to the error that counts.

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• Almost all the early Christian Fathers were opposed to the death penalty, even though it was of course standard practice across the ancient world.

  

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• I'm not shy about trying to find what truth there is in any genre, whether that be an action piece, a sci-fi piece, a small indie film, or a play. I'm open to it all.

  

  Mahershala Ali
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• Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.

  

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• I'd feel guilty just doing gags.

  

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• A big part of being an actress specifically is feeling entitled to your artistic opinion, feeling that it means something, and being able to stand by it.

  

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• I'm just someone who marvels at God.

  

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• Vilification on the grounds of race or religion is always wrong. There's no place for inciting hatred within our Australia society.

  

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• The spiritual virtue of a sacrament is like light; although it passes among the impure, it is not polluted.

  

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• It's not necessary that every film has to hit Rs 100 crore box office, or the Rs 50 crore budget. If the film makes double of its project budget, we consider that a hit, and that also means that the film is in profit.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
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• I remember the great atmosphere and the great stadium.

  

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• I have not been a follower of how many millions my films made or did not make.

  

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• Disneyland is a work of love. We didn't go into Disneyland just with the idea of making money.

  

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• Learning to read and write changes lives; it means jobs, money, health, and dreams fulfilled.

  

  Queen Rania of Jordan
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• Acting is an aesthetic career, which is annoying.

  

  Tamsin Egerton
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• We live in an image society. Speeches are not what anybody cares about; what they care about is the picture.

  

  Madeleine Albright
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• Dancers, many dancers today can do so much technically. You can give them steps that are complicated, then more complicated, pyrotechnical - and they can execute these steps to perfection. But to do simple steps with a pure classical line, that is truly difficult.

  

  Natalia Makarova
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• I meant that the Chinese people are not aware of their own entrapment. They believe they live in a free society, but don't realize how much they are being monitored and controlled, how much the information they receive is restricted and warped, until they step out of line, that is, and feel the heavy hand of the state fall on them.

  

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• We have met the enemy and he is us.

  

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• Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.

  

  Irving Kristol
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• I need you," he said to her, this woman who'd fought for her own right to live her life free of limits, "to build me some remote detonation devices." Amazing brown eyes shot with blue peering into his as she pressed her nose to his. "You always say the most romantic things.

  

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• Be more grateful, and less worried.

  

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• We won the war, but we are losing the occupation and reconstruction of Iraq. It is past time for a new approach, one that relies on accountability, responsibility, and phasing down the scope of our military commitment.

  

  Earl Blumenauer
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• Marcelo Garcia is one of those fighters who trains with no-gi, and is also great with gi. When you train with no-gi you actually get better with gi too. I am spending all the time on no-gi, so it becomes a different animal.

  

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• Mistakes are a fact of life. It is the response to the error that counts.

  

  Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni, Jr.
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